The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy